What is beauty??

“Would you change your religious beliefs to marry the person you love? Why or why not? “


” If I had to change my religious beliefs, I will not marry the person that I love. Because the first person that I love is GOD who created me. And I have my faith and my principles. And these what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God too, Thank you.”

This was the question and answer portion who took the world by storm last September 13, 2011 during the 60th Miss Universe Pageant held in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Representing the Philippines was our very own Shamcey Gurrea Supsup who hailed all the way from the place where effortless, world-class personalities are naturally born everyday - General Santos City.

Shamcey, 25, was born on May 16, 1986. She moved to General Santos City with her family when she was 3 years old.

She grew up with her father, Timoteo, since her mother (Marcey) worked as an engineer abroad. Before studying in Manila, she helped her father in the farm, feeding chickens and goats.

In school, Shamcey studied hard and enjoyed reading books. She was a valedictorian of her grade school batch, and was salutatorian of her high school batch at the Makati High School.

She graduated magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines and topped the 2010 Architect Licensure Examination.

Shebelieves that there is life on other planets, and that women have a natural advantage over men because "we have intuition so men don't fool us.

Asked if she could be any animal, Shamcey said she wants to be a bird "so I can fly and see the mountains."

Ms. Shamcey Supsup came in 4th place or third runner up during that pageant. Many speculates that there was a political side to that, she brushes off that issue gracefully by saying that she was happy for Ms. Angola's win and that she found nobody more deserving for the title than her.

Truly Shamcey has once again placed our country back on the world map. The epitome of a Filipina whom we can all be proud of!